Week #2 - Games of Interest

[Rhodymob05]

All of a sudden the A10 is racking up P5 wins.

[SmartyBarrett]

Mason is LEGIT and Dayton is a dumpster fire. Not what anyone was predicting for sure. Shaping up to be a wild year in the A-10.

[DeanDome88]

VCU with excellent defense as well tonight. 48-37 winner.

[reef]

Wow Uri Mason and VCU all beat P 5 schools

[Rhody Sody]

All of a sudden the A10 is racking up P5 wins.

Except the other games tonight were disasters. Could have easily been a sweep for the a10 tonight with 3 wins vs P5s!

[SandorClegane]

…starting to look like Fatts traded down.

[Obadiah]

Thursday action in the A-10:

Davidson vs. New Mexico State, 12 Noon On ESPNU. Myrtle Beach Invitational game.

#22 St. Bonaventure vs. Boise State, 2 PM. On ESPN2. Game in the Shriner's Children's Charleston Classic.

UMass vs. Weber State, 5:30 PM. On CBSSN. Game in the Jersey Mike's Classic in St. Petersburg FL.


In games involving URI OOC opponents:

Milwaukee at at #24 Florida, 6 PM. On SECN/ESPN+.

New Hampshire at PC, 5:30 PM. On FS2.

Boston U. at Hartford, 7 PM. On ESPN3.

[Jersey77]

Tough game for Davidson

[RF1]

All of a sudden the A10 is racking up P5 wins.

Weird night for the A-10 in six OOC games. Three games against teams from P-5 leagues ACC, Big Ten, and SEC. Two of them on the road. Three games against lower level leagues CAA and ASUN. Two of these at home.

Which three game group would you think the A-10 would sweep? Which group had the most potential for the A-10 to be swept?

Most logic would have predicted the different outcome last night.

[Jersey77]

All of a sudden the A10 is racking up P5 wins.

Weird night for the A-10 in six OOC games. Three games against teams from P-5 leagues ACC, Big Ten, and SEC. Two of them on the road. Three games against lower level leagues CAA and ASUN. Two of these at home.

Which three game group would you think the A-10 would sweep? Which group had the most potential for the A-10 to be swept?

Most logic would have predicted the different outcome last night.

Several on the Dayton fan board predicted Lipscomb would win.
They are projected to win the A-Sun with preseason POY Assadullah (F) and conference Newcomer of the Year Murr.
Dayton with their youth is experiencing a lot of growing pains.

Also Drexel is one of the favorites to finish top of the CAA.
Wyante is also a conference POY candidate.
Butler is an all conference forward who averaged close to a double/double.
St. Joe's of course was expected to win, but many thought it would be very close.

Meanwhile URI is taking care of business and GM is surprising everyone.

[Rhody15]

All of a sudden the A10 is racking up P5 wins.

Weird night for the A-10 in six OOC games. Three games against teams from P-5 leagues ACC, Big Ten, and SEC. Two of them on the road. Three games against lower level leagues CAA and ASUN. Two of these at home.

Which three game group would you think the A-10 would sweep? Which group had the most potential for the A-10 to be swept?

Most logic would have predicted the different outcome last night.

Several on the Dayton fan board predicted Lipscomb would win.
They are the projected to win the A-Sun with preseason POY Assadullah (F) and conference Newcomer of the Year Murr.
Dayton with their youth is experiencing a lot of growing pains.

Also Drexel is one of the favorites to finish top of the CAA.
Wyante is also a conference POY candidate.
Butler is an all conference forward who averaged close to a double/double.
St. Joe's of course was expected to win, but many thought it would be very close.

Meanwhile URI is taking care of business and GM is surprising everyone.

Drexel was a slight favorite, as they were -1, so technically not really an upset.

[Jersey77]

Weird night for the A-10 in six OOC games. Three games against teams from P-5 leagues ACC, Big Ten, and SEC. Two of them on the road. Three games against lower level leagues CAA and ASUN. Two of these at home.

Which three game group would you think the A-10 would sweep? Which group had the most potential for the A-10 to be swept?

Most logic would have predicted the different outcome last night.

Several on the Dayton fan board predicted Lipscomb would win.
They are projected to win the A-Sun with preseason POY Assadullah (F) and conference Newcomer of the Year Murr.
Dayton with their youth is experiencing a lot of growing pains.

Also Drexel is one of the favorites to finish top of the CAA.
Wyante is also a conference POY candidate.
Butler is an all conference forward who averaged close to a double/double.
St. Joe's of course was expected to win, but many thought it would be very close.

Meanwhile URI is taking care of business and GM is surprising everyone.

Drexel was a slight favorite, as they were -1, so technically not really an upset.

True 15, but St. Joe's was expected to be the sleeper team of the A10 by Rothstein.
Funk and Hall are a 2 man show for St. Joe's.

[SmartyBarrett]

Don't sleep on Milwaukee. Not picking them to beat Florida but they're sneaky good. Playing at their place is going to be a hell of a challenge for Rhody.

[ramster]

All of a sudden the A10 is racking up P5 wins.

Weird night for the A-10 in six OOC games. Three games against teams from P-5 leagues ACC, Big Ten, and SEC. Two of them on the road. Three games against lower level leagues CAA and ASUN. Two of these at home.

Which three game group would you think the A-10 would sweep? Which group had the most potential for the A-10 to be swept?

Most logic would have predicted the different outcome last night.

Several on the Dayton fan board predicted Lipscomb would win.
They are the projected to win the A-Sun with preseason POY Assadullah (F) and conference Newcomer of the Year Murr.
Dayton with their youth is experiencing a lot of growing pains.

Also Drexel is one of the favorites to finish top of the CAA.
Wyante is also a conference POY candidate.
Butler is an all conference forward who averaged close to a double/double.
St. Joe's of course was expected to win, but many thought it would be very close.

Meanwhile URI is taking care of business and GM is surprising everyone.

77,
I wasn’t surprised by George Mason because Maryland had struggled and underperformed in their 1st two games and Kim English is going to be an excellent coach imho as I have said several times since his hire. As you have stated regarding his incoming transfers previously, he also had hit the Class of 2022 Class hard and successfully already.

[Jersey77]

Weird night for the A-10 in six OOC games. Three games against teams from P-5 leagues ACC, Big Ten, and SEC. Two of them on the road. Three games against lower level leagues CAA and ASUN. Two of these at home.

Which three game group would you think the A-10 would sweep? Which group had the most potential for the A-10 to be swept?

Most logic would have predicted the different outcome last night.

Several on the Dayton fan board predicted Lipscomb would win.
They are projected to win the A-Sun with preseason POY Assadullah (F) and conference Newcomer of the Year Murr.
Dayton with their youth is experiencing a lot of growing pains.

Also Drexel is one of the favorites to finish top of the CAA.
Wyante is also a conference POY candidate.
Butler is an all conference forward who averaged close to a double/double.
St. Joe's of course was expected to win, but many thought it would be very close.

Meanwhile URI is taking care of business and GM is surprising everyone.

77,
I wasn’t surprised by George Mason because Maryland had struggled and underperformed in their 1st two games and Kim English is going to be an excellent coach imho as I have said several times since his hire. As you have stated regarding his incoming transfers previously, he also had hit the Class of 2022 Class hard and successfully already.

Yes Ramster, you were one of the few on this board who gave preseason props to GM.
I agreed with you then that I liked the English hire, but didn't expect them to be this good so soon.
It is early and much can happen, but coach English definitely has them going in the right direction.
I hoped they would give Maryland a game, but never expected them to win there.

[Dino611]

Watching Davidson and not having a go to dribble penetrator is hurting them, Foster Loyer is the closest to have to that and a baller , not having Grady or JAG is going to kill em ,but they still find ways to score off screens and cuts which will drive me crazy when we play them, as well as a close game w New Mexico State w/ less than 8 mins to go tied up at 56

[NYGFan_Section208]

Watching Davidson and not having a go to dribble penetrator is hurting them, Foster Loyer is the closest to have to that and a baller , not having Grady or JAG is going to kill em ,but they still find ways to score off screens and cuts which will drive me crazy when we play them, as well as a close game w New Mexico State w/ less than 8 mins to go tied up at 56

There's a reason for the term "pulling a Davidson"....(props to TP?)

[PeterRamTime]

Watching Davidson and not having a go to dribble penetrator is hurting them, Foster Loyer is the closest to have to that and a baller , not having Grady or JAG is going to kill em ,but they still find ways to score off screens and cuts which will drive me crazy when we play them, as well as a close game w New Mexico State w/ less than 8 mins to go tied up at 56

There's a reason for the term "pulling a Davidson"....(props to TP?)

Came here to point that out lol

Just Davidson ensuring they won't get any marquee wins out of conference and maintaining a very competitive team

[Jersey77]

New Mexico State beats Davidson 75-64.
Was rooting for Davidson but I think NMSU is the better team.

[Obadiah]

Boise State giving St. Bonaventure a challenge. SBU leads by 2 midway in the second half.

[PeterRamTime]

St Bonaventure needs to prove they deserve that ranking here soon.

[Obadiah]

Bonnies retake the lead by one, 10 lead changes in the game so far. 6 minutes left.

[ramster]

67-61 with 2:14 to go Bonnie’s lead. Boise St ball

[Obadiah]

St. Bonaventure prevails, 67-61. Boise State went over 5 minutes hitting only one basket to clinch it for SBU.

[Obadiah]

UMass falls to Weber State, 88-73. After a close first half, Weber State pulled away in the second stanza as UMass could not get closer than 7 points. UMass put up 37 three-pointers, hitting at 35%.

[Obadiah]

#24 Florida in a romp over Milwaukee, 85-41.

[rhodysurf]

Umass is a wild ride

[Rhodymob05]

Umass is a wild ride

Never bet your life on em

[SGreenwell]

Umass is a wild ride

Never bet your life on em

I full suspect them to go like 6-24, with two of the six wins against us.

[Jersey77]

UMass will pull off some surprise wins and have some bad losses.
They should be better than what you suggest, you were probably only half serious.
The last 2 games Garcia who averaged over 10 pts for them only played a total of 2 minutes.
Much anticipated transfer (grad) center Steadman (6'10") hasn't even suited up yet.

[Obadiah]

Boston U. seemingly with a comfortable 18 point lead midway through the second half had to withstand a furious comeback by winless Hartford who shaved the BU lead to one with 3 minutes left, but the Terriers survived to win 75-70. McCoy and Whtye combined for 36 points.

[woodennickel1]

Wow, George Mason beats #20 Maryland 71-66 at Maryland.
English is doing something special there.
Put together a nice roster.
Plus adding Dennis Felton as assoc. HC was smart with all his head coaching and NCAAT experience (Western Kentucky, Georgia).

Amazing how getting someone who know what he's doing can breathe life into a program.

[woodennickel1]

Wow, George Mason beats #20 Maryland 71-66 at Maryland.
English is doing something special there.
Put together a nice roster.
Plus adding Dennis Felton as assoc. HC was smart with all his head coaching and NCAAT experience (Western Kentucky, Georgia).

Amazing how getting someone who know what he's doing can breathe life into a program.

[gorhody89]

Classic Davidson - have a bad non conference season only to figure it out once conference play starts

[Obadiah]

Friday action in the A-10:

Davidson vs., Penn, 2:30 PM On ESPNU.

#22 St. Bonaventure vs. Clemson, 2:30 PM. On ESPN2. Semi-final game in the Shriner's Children's Charleston Classic.

UMass vs. UNC-Greensboro, 3 PM. On CBSSN. Jersey Mike's Classic in St. Petersburg, FL.

Northeastern vs. Duquesne, 5:45 PM. On ESPN3. First round game in the Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

UMass Lowell at George Washington, 7 PM. On ESPN+.

George Mason at James Madison. 7 PM.

Maryland-Eastern Shore at Fordham, 7 PM. On ESPN+.


In a game involving URI OOC opponents:

Brown vs. Creighton. 3:15 PM. On ESPN3. First round game in the Paradise Jam.

[Blue Man]

Rhode Island kid makes headlines

Click and you can see the huge steal and 3 point play

There's another RI kid, Jawarie Hamlin from Westerly, doing a post grad year at PRISE Academy in Missouri. His team is playing a few New England schools this week and next up this way.

He's had many D1 contacts and/or offers from mid majors (schools lower than the A10) from the tweets I've seen, maybe Cox and company could get a look at him while he's in the area?

From his posted highlights on Twitter, I don't really think he looks like an A-10 talent - more of a low D1 player, if that. Also, while he might be getting interest, I can't find any offers, and he doesn't have pages on Verbal Commits or the usual spots. (Then again, I'm always annoyed when URI gets crapped on for not recruiting a Rhode Island kid, as if it is every school's divine right and/or responsibility to sign all local talent.)

I mean the kid wanted to come here and we didn't want to look at him. We literally said we were all set and he wasn't worth a look. I think it's OK to be critical of the staff for not even bothering to kick the tires on a shooting guard when shooting is historically one of our biggest issues.

Whether you think he looked like an A-10 talent or not he was literally the conference rookie of the year who shot 36% from 3 on a bad team.

[DC_Rams]

…and how do you know we didn’t? Because the Twitter didn’t say so? Or is it because you all just live to have things to bitch, cry and moan about? Move the fuck on.

[SGreenwell]

There's another RI kid, Jawarie Hamlin from Westerly, doing a post grad year at PRISE Academy in Missouri. His team is playing a few New England schools this week and next up this way.

He's had many D1 contacts and/or offers from mid majors (schools lower than the A10) from the tweets I've seen, maybe Cox and company could get a look at him while he's in the area?

From his posted highlights on Twitter, I don't really think he looks like an A-10 talent - more of a low D1 player, if that. Also, while he might be getting interest, I can't find any offers, and he doesn't have pages on Verbal Commits or the usual spots. (Then again, I'm always annoyed when URI gets crapped on for not recruiting a Rhode Island kid, as if it is every school's divine right and/or responsibility to sign all local talent.)

I mean the kid wanted to come here and we didn't want to look at him. We literally said we were all set and he wasn't worth a look. I think it's OK to be critical of the staff for not even bothering to kick the tires on a shooting guard when shooting is historically one of our biggest issues.

Whether you think he looked like an A-10 talent or not he was literally the conference rookie of the year who shot 36% from 3 on a bad team.

I'm talking about Hamlin, not Kolek. I don't really know the background on Kolek. Looking at his Verbal Commits page, his best offers out of HS look to be Mason, Bonaventure and Richmond, so it wasn't like he was some hot shot prospect that everyone was after. It wouldn't surprise me if URI overlooked him, but I'd also note that he probably had his pick of schools after winning A-10 ROTY, and he transferred even further away from Rhode Island (the state). I'm not entirely sure that location had much of a bearing on where he decided to go, but whenever you directly ask a player a question like that, they're not going to answer, "No, I mostly care about playing time and the best situation for me."

[Rhody15]

…and how do you know we didn’t? Because the Twitter didn’t say so? Or is it because you all just live to have things to bitch, cry and moan about? Move the fuck on.

Jesus dude who pissed in your cereal this morning?

[JimSidd]

Maybe Richmond’s loss to Utah St last week won’t end up being as bad as I thought at the time. Utah St currently laying the wood to New Mexico St.
Then there’s Temple … yikes! Boise St isn’t exactly a national power.

[PeterRamTime]

Maybe Richmond’s loss to Utah St last week won’t end up being as bad as I thought at the time. Utah St currently laying the wood to New Mexico St.
Then there’s Temple … yikes! Boise St isn’t exactly a national power.

Temple has been pretty bad since leaving the A-10

[Rhodymob05]

Clemson playing extremally well vs the Bonnies. Tigers look like they can compete for the top spot in the ACC.

[Obadiah]

Clemson looks to be a very good team that was unheralded coming into the season. In the first half they outclassed St. Bonaventure with the halftime score, 36-26. Nick Honor, the Fordham transfer, is making a nice contribution to the Clemson team. Let's hope the Bonnies can turn this around in the second half.

[Rhodymob05]

And they have, Bonnies storm back.

[Obadiah]

It's a barn burner right now.

[ramster]

Big win for St Bonaventure. Solid comeback and coaching.
On to the Championship to play Marquette/West Virginia winner

[PeterRamTime]

The Bonnies kicked it up a notch today! They are impressive!

[ramster]

Lots of fans and students are at Charleston. Quite a lot of noise being provided.

[rhodysurf]

Clem Bona second half was awesome to watch.

Also hilarious, bonnies bench scored 0. If Osunniyi fouls out they are fucked

[PeterRamTime]

Clem Bona second half was awesome to watch.

Also hilarious, bonnies bench scored 0. If Osunniyi fouls out they are fucked

That's why we match up so well with them! We can throw two more athletic Osunniyi's at 'em.

Makhel and Walker basically took him out last year.